Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements

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Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements..

Answer / anilkumar kambala

UNIQUE:
UNIQUE CAN TAKE UNIQUE DATA
USING DISTINCT CLAUSE SORTING THE DATA

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Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements..

Answer / pravin d. survase

UNIQUE is only used in oracle but,
DISTINCT is used in all RDBMS.

UNIQUE is used in SELECT statement and as KEY also.
DISTINCT is only used in SELECT.
DISTINCT KEY concept is not present in SQL/ORACLE.

UNIQUE also supress the duplicates but, UNIQUE KEY will
allow the duplicates.
DISTINCT supress the duplicates.

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Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements..

Answer / prabha

Distinct:
Its gives only the non duplicate values in a database table.
Unique:
The UNIQUE constraint uniquely identifies each record in a
database table.its similar to primary key.these values
cannot be repeated.

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Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements..

Answer / carol

unique is a constraint on coloumnsbut distinct is used in DML for query retrieval in select

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Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements..

Answer / cutepa1

Yeah Manoj, Thatz ok, UNIQUE as a constraint. But I like to
know about the diff while its usage in select statement. For
me it seems very similar to DISTINCT, can anyone give me if
there is any difference, please.

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Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements..

Answer / howard cheon

DISTINCT AND UNIQUE are same operation.
But, You cannot specify DISTINCT if the select_list
contains LOB columns.

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Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements..

Answer / hemasundar

Distinct:Its gives only the non duplicate values in a database table.
Unique:The UNIQUE constraint uniquely identifies each record in a database table.its similar to primary key.these values
cannot be repeated.But, nearly both are same...

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Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements..

Answer / narendrasai

UNIQUE: it is a constraint and it was created at the time of table creation, where as

DISTINCT: it is a word used at the time of selection.

So both are same, but usage of both the words are different

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Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements..

Answer / vijay mohan reddy

Hi Howard Cheon,
you are currect... but we cant able to use
both DISTINCT and UNIQUE, if the select_list contains LOB,
LONG columns. It may not a difference.

Could anyone plz give some another major difference..

Thanks in Advance

Vijay Reddy.

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Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements..

Answer / ajeet

there is no diff between distinct and unique in user point
of view. both are same. same functionality. dont bother
about it use whatever you want....

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